100 BEE CULTURE. 
“fraudulent,” an “imitation!” What is there unnatural 
about Comb Foundation? Is the wax unnatural? Does 
melting, and dipping a board in it, make it a fraud ? 
Does peeling off the cooling sheet of wax from the board 
make it an “imitation?” Or running it between rollers, or 
pressing configurations into it, make it unnatural? If so, 
why do the bees take to it.so naturally, instantly seizing it, 
building it out into beautiful cells, in which to raise their 
brood or store their honey? Is not everything genuine, 
natural and real? Then why, in the name of common sense, 
should it be called “artificial ?’ We much prefer the real, 
the natural, the genuine, be it ever so plain, to the gilded 
fraud, or the elegant imitation! Let all ask, why? An 
honest doubt often leads to greater truth ! 
FASTENING FOUNDATION TO THE FRAMES. 
We use Langstroth frames with a V-shaped top-bar ; the 
foundation is just as wide as the inside of the frame from the 
bottom-bar to the lower point of the top-bar, and is one-inch 
Fig. 72.— Foundation Fastened to Top-Bar. 
shorter than the frame from end to end. When ready to use 
aset of frames, the foundation is placed on clean paper, 
evenly piled, with the straightest edge next to the operator ; 
now with a sharp knife, make four incisions or cuts half an 
inch long down through the foundation to the paper, and at 
equal distances from each other and at the ends; with the 
hands placed at each end of the pile, turn up the two end- 
cuts with the thumbs, and proceed to the center, which is 
also turned up; now lift the sheet clear from the pile and 
turn the two remaining cuts or flaps in the opposite direction ; 
